National Public Radio (NPR) and three other public Colorado radio stations filed suit against the Trump administration on Tuesday, challenging the legality of an executive order that called to cease federal funding to NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

The order, titled “ Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media ,” directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to end its direct and indirect funding of the public media outlets. The CPB was created through the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 , and its purpose has been to distribute federal funding to local public radio stations and to act as a barrier between partisan politics and public media content. The order asserts that the CPB has failed its mission and that “which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does n

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